Very full now, just ate my words

I watched snip­pets of the YOG open­ing cer­e­mony, and spent another hour on the Youth Olympic News Chan­nel on Starhub TV watch­ing inter­views and re-runs and won­dered why they didn’t have that on ear­lier. I learned many things about the Games and the ath­letes par­tic­i­pat­ing which should have been in the local media but wasn’t.

But back to the Open­ing Cer­e­mony. It was very impres­sive, right down to the giant mon­ster that a boy, who was later inter­viewed on YON Chan­nel, described as “very fluffy”.

You guys pulled off a great show — which was the only thing needed to get this bloody coun­try to rally behind you. No need for calls to be gra­cious and fines to be imposed should those calls be unheeded.

The icing on the cake this week­end for me, a non-soccer fan, was the home-grown Sin­ga­pore youth foot­ball team beat­ing, nay, thrash­ing the day­lights out of the hith­erto cocky Zim­bab­weans, who had ear­lier pre­dicted a 5–0 rout­ing of our Lion Cubs. I was thrilled to see such an exu­ber­ant per­for­mance from a team from our shores.

If they grow up play­ing like this, we might just hear the Kallang Roar again (ok, and after they demol­ish and rebuild the National Sta­dium, and ask to be part of the Malaysia Cup again too).

Keep at it, boys. Show the older sport­ing folk how it’s done — by throw­ing every­thing at the opposition.

Top points also to the 12 year old boy who ran after the torch and single-handedly restored mean­ing to the Olympic torch relay after it had been inex­plic­a­bly given legs by Medi­a­corp (yah, I know, WTF?) artistes on the first day.

My words go down well with a tall glass of wheat beer, by the way.

Har? #sgflood again?